Increased partisan activity in the area of Slutsk and Baranovichi
continues. Several arrests for holding arms without permit.
Locomotives collided in Baranovichi due to an act of sabotage by
Polish railway workers. Two electricians were arrested in Minsk. They
are suspected of having cut the telegraph cable of the militairy
airport three times during the last eight days.

A Jew was shot in public in the Baranovichi Ghetto because he refused
to work. In Minsk, four Jewesses and six Jews were arrested for being
outside the ghetto without a permit and because they did not wear the
Jewish badge. The Polish district mayor of Chukin in the district of
Baranovichi was shot by a Sonderfuhrer of the German Army for
resistance activity. A secret agent obtained a wireless receiver for
partisans through an agent from the factory for telecommunication
equipment. Distribution of land that had been announced in the Rear
Army Area was interpreted as a sign of wekness by the Communist
adversary. Part of the population expressed considerable joy as its
first reaction [to the announcement].

The mood continues to be low within the population because of rumors
of increased partisan activity, air attacks, etc. In the towns, the
food situation gets worse from day to day. More and more places of
work are abandoned.

Emigration, even by Jews, to the west has been noticed for the first
time in the rural communities. The peasents hide part of their last
reserves of grain and fodder.
(The Einsatzgruppen Reports by Yitzak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski and Shmuel Spector, editors. p. 301-2)

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